Press Rights Group Says Attacks on Journalists Have Surged in Mexico World Bulletin
go to original March 17, 2016

Mexico: Aggressions Against Journalists Increased More Than 21% in 2015 (teleSUR English)

A new report by Article 19 says that the organization has observed a "deterioration of freedom of speech" since President Enrique Pena Nieto took office in December 2012.

Of the eight killed in 2015, seven were reporters who were murdered "possibly in connection with their journalistic work" while the eighth victim was an administrative employee of a news organization.

Some 41.5 percent, or 165, of the 397 attacks last year were perpetrated by federal, state and municipal officials, the document said. Another 35 of the assaults were blamed on organized crime groups.

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